James Caan joined Dragons' Den in 2007 after building the Hamilton Bradshaw investment firm.
Hamilton Bradshaw was founded by Caan as a private-equity business, and its work gave him experience assessing companies, management teams and opportunities for expansion. That background distinguished him from investors whose careers were rooted primarily in retail, manufacturing or hospitality.
Caan became part of the programme's changing investor line-up in the third series. He later left the regular panel after the 2010 series. The company name is sometimes confused with Caan's earlier recruitment businesses, but Hamilton Bradshaw was the investment firm most directly linked with his role as a Dragon.